I think Deodato has improved so much since the 90s.He's one of my favs now and can still hold his own and even surpass some of today's artists.

He's been my favorite comic artist since I was a little kid reading PAD's Hulk with Deodato on pencils. Take it from a Hulk fan, he does one of the top 3 Hulks of all time, easily. Keown, Gary Frank, and Deodato are the best Hulk artists ever, and his art was 100% better during Bruce Jones' run on the Hulk.

And his work on T-Bolts and now on Dark Avengers is just the best he's ever been.

Eh, PAD's one of those guys I'm concerned about whenever he writes Thor, but otherwise he's aces.

Red's a pussy. All Thor's imitators are, to some extent, compared to the real deal. I gotta post the pics of Thor utterly wiping the floor with Eric Masterson later. Same powers and Masterson even has Mjolnir, but Thor still beats the holy f***ing hell out of him.

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Eh, PAD's one of those guys I'm concerned about whenever he writes Thor, but otherwise he's aces.

Red's a pussy. All Thor's imitators are, to some extent, compared to the real deal. I gotta post the pics of Thor utterly wiping the floor with Eric Masterson later. Same powers and Masterson even has Mjolnir, but Thor still beats the holy f***ing hell out of him.

Yeah, but Red kicked Thor's ass the first time the two of them fought.

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Well, they did continue it. It was initially only 6 issues but it got extended to 12.

As for Ultimate vs. 616, I'll take the King Thor armor or Coipel's redesign any day. The only visually interesting thing about Ultimate Thor is the glowy discs. His hammer is like a bad anime weapon--ridiculously oversized and silly-looking.

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Yeah, but it's by the same guys who've brought us the last few DTV movies, so I'm not particularly enthused. I mean, it's great exposure for Thor and I'm glad it's getting made, I just don't think I'll wind up enjoying it too much.

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Thor Son of Asgard was awesome. I heard that due to its popularity they were going to continue it. LIARS!

Son of Asgard > Smallville.

I heard that and ignored that Son of Asgard was a take off of Smallville becasue TALES OF ASGARD was around YEARS before Smallville and Tales of Asgard was alot like Son of Asgard which you'll find out in a couple months with the reprints if you are familar with it.

Marvel really needs to start a Tales of Asgard series FROM the mini coming out.

I get the feeling that the Tales of Asgard reprints are Marvel's way of feeling out whether there's a real market for a new Tales series after the success of the Ages of Thunder one-shots. I hope I'm right about that and that whoever winds up on a new ToA series takes some inspiration from the Son of Asgard series.

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I heard that and ignored that Son of Asgard was a take off of Smallville becasue TALES OF ASGARD was around YEARS before Smallville and Tales of Asgard was alot like Son of Asgard which you'll find out in a couple months with the reprints if you are familar with it.

Marvel really needs to start a Tales of Asgard series FROM the mini coming out.

They're very similar. Tales of Asgard features tales of various characters from throughout Asgard's history, including Thor and the rest of the current series' main characters in their younger years. Son of Asgard just stripped away the other stuff and focused solely on them. So it's like a more focused subset of Tales of Asgard.

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